Books like Damaged Goods by Lainey Reese

An intense, adult romance that explores power dynamics and control within a high‑stakes professional relationship.

Regi has protected her past while working for an underground kink club. When doctors Kirk and Brian enter her life, their obsession forces her to confront buried trauma and decide whether healing is possible.

"Eloise has kept her desires in the dark her entire life. Not sure if she should feel ashamed over her need to have a sexual relationship that consists of pain, she focuses on keeping to herself, knowing that she can never have what she really wants. Steel is a member of The Soldiers of Wrath MC. He is a man that takes what he wants when he wants it; he is never denied. But he wants Eloise, and her refusal to give herself to him makes Steel want her even more."

A year ago, my best friend Hal died at the hands of an incompetent "dom." So I started the Subs Club, a private blog where submissives can review doms and call out the douche bags. A perfect example of the kind of arrogant asshole I mean? The Disciplinarian. He has a pornstache. he loves meat, stoicism, America, and real discipline. And he thinks subs exist to serve him. But ... not everything about him is awful. His Davy Crockett act just seems like a cover for his fear of intimacy, and part of me wants to show him it's okay to get close to people. And I mean, sue me, but I have fantasized about real discipline. Not role-play, but like, Dave, you're gonna be thirty in four years and you still work in a mall; get your ass in gear or I'll spank it. Not that I'd ever trusy anyone with that kind of control. I'm gonna redefine "battle of wills" for the Disciplinarian. Or I'm gonna bone him. It's hard to say ... --Dave.

Security expert Conner Dillon takes a rare vacation to Hawaii, where he re‑encounters landlady Jillian Sawyer, an erotic romance author with a taste for Dom dynamics. Their intense attraction turns dangerous when someone wants Jillian dead.